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I eventually did get a router set up, my brother-in-law did it. He had to exchange our piece-of-crap modem for another one which wasn't quite so bad, and there was peace within the house.
Fastforward to today, about, say, 5am. I have to plug in my cell phone recharger, so I unplug the router, plug in the recharger, and plug the router into a different slot on the power strip. No problem, right? Lo, what fools these mortals (me) be.
Once I've done this, the modem decides it doesn't want to talk to the router. And, when we attempt to unplug the modem from the router, and directly into my computer, it doesn't want to send anything to my computer either. It's still in its snit, so we set up the old modem - but that one, for whatever reason, refuses to respond to an ethernet cable, meaning we can't set up the router with it, meaning that there is no longer peace in our time.
I didn't even unplug the fucking modem to start with, but now I need to deal with its tantrums?
Anyway, we called the cable company, and they'll be dropping by Tuesday. I'll ask them for a new modem, since the one they gave us when they set us up is a cheap-ass piece of crap, and quite possibly a little broken. After all, it has a slot for an ethernet cable, but it doesn't work.
However, I'd really like to avoid all this, since it's a three-day-wait, and my mom will want her internet back. So, um... any ideas?
Fastforward to today, about, say, 5am. I have to plug in my cell phone recharger, so I unplug the router, plug in the recharger, and plug the router into a different slot on the power strip. No problem, right? Lo, what fools these mortals (me) be.
Once I've done this, the modem decides it doesn't want to talk to the router. And, when we attempt to unplug the modem from the router, and directly into my computer, it doesn't want to send anything to my computer either. It's still in its snit, so we set up the old modem - but that one, for whatever reason, refuses to respond to an ethernet cable, meaning we can't set up the router with it, meaning that there is no longer peace in our time.
I didn't even unplug the fucking modem to start with, but now I need to deal with its tantrums?
Anyway, we called the cable company, and they'll be dropping by Tuesday. I'll ask them for a new modem, since the one they gave us when they set us up is a cheap-ass piece of crap, and quite possibly a little broken. After all, it has a slot for an ethernet cable, but it doesn't work.
However, I'd really like to avoid all this, since it's a three-day-wait, and my mom will want her internet back. So, um... any ideas?
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Date: 2005-07-24 10:50 pm (UTC)